La Bocana Roja Formation is a geological formation in Baja California, Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous, specifically around the Cenomanian to Turonian.[1] Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[2]
La Bocana Roja Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian-Turonian ~ | |
Type | Geological formation |
Underlies | Punta Baja Formation |
Location | |
Region | North America |
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Vertebrates reported from the La Bocana Roja Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Location | Member | Material | Notes | Images |
A. antecedens[3] |
"Postcranial elements."[4] |
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Hadrosauridae | Indeterminate | "bone fragments; humerus"[5] | ||||
L. anomala[6] |
"Very fragmentary skull and postcrania."[7] |
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Lambeosaurinae | Indeterminate | "left ischium and fragment of left ilium, right jugal, dentary, radial fragment, scapula, ulna and fibula fragment, humerus, pedal ungual phalanx."[5] | Probably belongs to one taxon. |